2025 Mogadishu military base bombing

When

18 May 2025

Kind

Terrorist attack

Coordinates

2.04° N, 45.34° E

Placed at the town its title names, Mogadishu.

Suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia

On 18 May 2025, an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber killed at least 20 people, 15 recruits and five civilians nearby, outside the gates of Damaanyo military base where hundreds of young men had been lined up to enlist in the Somali National Army in Hodan neighbourhood of Mogadishu.

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